Posts filed under CES 2006

Samsung have announced the new Samsung SCH-B5200 mobile phone at CeBIT 2006, which is designed firmly with entertainment in mind. Clearly Samsung see the SCH-B5200 as a successor to Nokia’s ill-fated N-Gage, but just in case 3D gaming on your mobile phone doesn’t take your fancy, they’ve also thrown in an MP3 player and DMB mobile TV as well – just in case you get bored!

More details and pics after the jump.

[Source: Akihabara News]

Samsung will be showing off their new Samsung SGH-i310 at CeBIT 2006, featuring a huge 8 gigabyte hard disk inside. Samsung clearly like their features big. First came the 8 megapixel Samsung camera phone, and now they’ve bolted an 8 gigabyte hard disk onto their new mobile phone, which is capable of storing over 2,000 tunes! Better still, it’s coming to Europe.

More details on the Samsung SGH-i310 8 Gigabyte hard disk phone after the jump.

[Source: MobileMag]

[Source: BlogPulse]

Nokia’s North American VP Tim Eckersley has a few interesting things to say about the future of mobile trends over at Reuters. In a 5 minute video clip, he shows off the Nokia N770 Internet tablet, which is selling in droves, and talks about the latest trends that Nokia see appearing in the next year or so.  Specifically, he cites convergence and multimedia as the overarching themes, and says that convergence is being driven by music.  Hang on, is this last year’s trend he’s predicting or this?!

He also goes on to say that imaging is starting to take over as the driver of sales, with camera phones ramping up to the 5 megapixel level (which was last year’s entry level model for South Korean models!), and that there will be greater integration with external accessories such as printers for more seamless transport of your images.

So, he doesn’t reveal much, and he certainly doesn’t explain why Nokia’s been so quiet, but you at least get a feel for what it’s like at CES 2006 right now.

[Source: Reuters]

Motorola haven’t finished with their announcements at CES yet, announcing alliances with Kodak and Google.  With Kodak, Motorola have announced a ten year alliance whereby they’ll use Kodak’s CMOS sensors in their camera phones, as well as integrate Motorola mobile phones with Kodak EasyShare accessories, such as printers and retail kiosks.

With Google, Motorola will be releasing mobile phones with a Google icon, enabling users to go directly to the search engine with one click. Not major news, and not enough to make me want to buy a Motorola phone (hell no!), but reasonably interesting.

[Source: Motorola, Engadget]

Sony Ericsson have also announced the MPS-60 portable speakers and the MDS-60 Music Desk Stand (above). The Sony Ericsson MP-60 plug into your Sony Ericsson phone (presumably a Walkman model, like the new W810 Walkman phone), while the MDS-60 is a stand into which you place your Sony Ericsson phone.  The MDS-60 will then blast your tunes out to you while charging your phone.

Great, Sony Ericsson, but not rocking my world!

[Source: Sony Ericsson]

See pics of the Sony Ericsson MPS-60 speakers after the jump.

• Quad band
• 512MB storage, expandable up to 2 GB
• 2 Mega pixel camera with AutoFocus
• 4 x digital zoom
• 176 x 220 pixel, 265K colour, 1.9” TFT display
• Video recording
• Email, SMS and MMS
• Internet browser

[Source: Sony Ericsson]

More details on the Sony Ericsson W810 Walkman phone after the jump.